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Let's start here: The Dolphins entered the pre-game locker room in Oakland two hours before kickoff. Upon changing into uniforms, an Oakland playbook was discovered in a locker, complete with audible calls, according to several players. The playbook was delivered to the coach. He immediately dropped it in the trash can. And after their 18-game win streak was stopped that day, assistant coach Monte Clark half-jokingly asked Don Shula about throwing away the playbook. "We'll win the right way,'' Shula said. This was 1973. It sounds so noble, so forthright and also utterly obsolete in an NFL where modern technology keeps offering ways to cheat and teams...

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The playbook...

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At...

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